Young Slovenians Leaving Home Late, Finding it Harder to Get Job
Young people in Slovenia are delaying starting independent life as they are finding it increasingly difficult to get a job, the Statistics Office said in a special release dedicated to International Youth Day on Sunday.
Almost 70% of young people in Slovenia (18-34 year-olds) was found to be living with their parents during the last survey conducted in 2008. This is the second-highest rate in the EU behind Slovakia, the Statistics Office points out.
The late departure from home has helped keep the poverty rate among young people low, which among 15-29 year-olds stands at a little over 10%.
The Statistics Office points out that young people are finding it increasingly hard to get a job, which is why they are prolonging their studies and delaying the start of independent life.
In 2011, three-quarters of 25-29 year-olds were working, of which 76% had a full-time job. The survey unemployment rate in this group stood at 14.2%, which is 1.6 percentage points above the EU average in this group and 6 points above the overall unemployment rate in Slovenia.
As many as 43% of all 25-29 year-olds out of a job have been looking for a job for more than a year, the Statistics Office said in its release to mark International Youth Day which is this year taking place under the motto "Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth".
The lack of jobs is encouraging young people to continue studies: while 23% of 25-29 year olds were studying in 2000, the figure stood at 37% in 2011.
As a consequence of this trend, young people are increasingly dependent on parents. In 2011 a little over 50% of 25-29 year-olds lived with their parents.
Men were more likely to still live at home in this age group, as 60% of men were still at home, whereas the share among women who had not yet started independent life was at 45%.
President Danilo Türk touched on the problems faced by young people in finding a job in a statement issued on Sunday.
He said that reform of the labour legislation was a chance to adopt youth-friendly legislation, adding that this could only be done by including young people in the drafting process.
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Nice summary, Julian. You might enjoy these websites:
http://www.anxietyculture.com/contents.htm and http://www.whywork.org
What has been achieved by counting this? What good can come of it?
What if 60% of the world's working age population could provide enough labour to supply the needs of the 100%?
What if it were only 6%, as I suspect it already is?
In fact even the concept of "unemployment" - and the word for it - did not exist until around 1830, when the Industrial Revolution first swept away the agrarian population and concentrated them into the English cities.
As a result, your life is full of goods which prevent unnecessary work and make life easier. The only small problem is that not everyone seems to have enough money to buy all the labour-saving items - the cars, phones, and microwave dinners.
When they can, there is even less for people to do. So you can see that one of the main motivations for work is actually laziness.
Why not employ some people to sit around nagging people to find a job? This are called an "Employment Service".
But this is not a service to you. It does not create any jobs, except for its own.
Then, you could send a bewildered youth off on college courses in tourism and golf management.
That wouldn't create money for people to go on holiday or buy golf clubs. But, you may care to observe, the "Employment Service" and their political paymasters can claim count fewer people are "unemployed". But are they really doing anything useful?
So either ban machinery to make life more difficult. Everyone into the zadruga. Then there will be enough work.
Or should capitalism have a big war and destroy the machinery and some of the people? Those who are left will have to start all over again, which will keep them busy for a while.
Or couldn't we just stop pretending that it matters? Just give the unemployed free money to go and buy a Galaxy S5 or whatever.
From the predictable reactions you can expect to that idea you can see that the real problem is jealousy, resentment, and a religious work-ethic tradition: "Please let my neighbour's goat die."
Except that now we are not all stacking hay for the winter, these expectations don't really add up, whichever way you try to count it.
To want more employment is to want less progress.
"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." -- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876.
But if you absolutely insist that moral character is somehow inversely correlated with pointless effort, there is a way to have both.
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D that's great. It's good to know one isn't alone, and it was reassuring to see that several of the links on those sites didn't work.
But even lazy people make mistakes. I think I meant "correlated" not "inversely correlated". That just demonstrates how ingrained the over-work habit is.